Alfredo Salazar-Caro born in Mexico City, Mexico is a multimedia artist and educator, currently based in Chicago. He works with sculpture and digital media including video, animated gifs, and virtual reality. Through these mediums Alfredo explores phenomenology, identity, memory, and time. Of these concepts, time and memory have become most central to his artistic practice. Recently such concepts have manifested themselves as digital avatars and virtual reconstructions of environments, often creating a form of hyper self-portraiture for participatory engagement and viewing.

In addition to his studio practice Alfredo Salazar-Caro continues to explore curatorial practices as he leads projects such as Street Team— a guerilla installation of .movs and animated gifs composed by several contemporary artists of varying disciplines whose works were projected on permanent collections of major museums and galleries throughout the world.

Alfredo Salazar-Caro has exhibited nationally and internationally in cities such as Dallas, Chicago, New York, Toronto, Amsterdam, London, Berlin, and of course in his hometown Mexico City.

[STREET_TEAM] is a series of guerrilla video installations performed and curated by Alfredo Salazar-Caro. [STREET_TEAM] began in a Wester European/Mexican tour tagging cities like, London, Berlin, Amsterdam+Mexico City. in December 2012, [STREET:NYC] graced the walls of the MET, PS1, New Museum and the like. In March 2014 [STREET_TEAM:LA] will be in the city of Angels for 7 days [MAR25-APR02] to spread some New Media joy on the walls of the Higher Institutions.

[STREET_TEAM] was featured on Leonardo Almanac of Art And Technology, read about it here:

your submission must be an animated gif or short video (no more than 10 second loop) and no larger than 1920x1080px obects with black backgrounds work the best, but not a requirement. Send your video/gif to alfredosalazarcaro@gmail.com

“What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”-Morpheus, 1999

Jean Albano Gallery presents ∞Realities, new work by Alfredo Salazar-Caro

∞RE∆LITIES explores portraiture through the scope of Virtual Reality, conjuring ideas of immortality and multiple universes. Borrowing from surrealist language, Salazar-Caro presents a new series of work consisting of sculptures prints, videos and interactive software.

Technoromanticism explores the growing trend of artists using computers as a tool for artistic production. Photoshop has become the new paintbrush and palette, AutoCAD the new hammer and chisel, Data is the new Ready-Made and the webpage has become the new Kunsthalle.In this exhibition, Salazar-Caro seeks to extract a piece of this cyber-culture into the IRL (In-Real-Life) realm and allow an IRL audience to experience it.

"Rigidbody components take control over an object's position - it makes the objects fall down under the influence of gravity, and can calculate how objects will respond to collisions."-From Docs.Unity3d

RIGID_BØDIES is an exploration of data as the marble of the 21st century. This exhibition is a brief showcase of international New Media artists working in digital sculpture.

[STREET_TEAM: NYC] Will be performed in New York between November 20th and December 3rd 2012 and will be exhibited in Davis, California as part of Art Basel Miami Beach Davis Satellite Show on December the 6th as well as online.

please submit either up to three .mov//.mpeg4 under 10 seconds or animated .gif's to gsalaz@saic.edu